18.306 | Fall 2009 | Graduate

Advanced Partial Differential Equations with Applications

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Lecture 21

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Lecture notes on gas dynamics in 1-D, characteristics, simple waves, Riemann invariants, rarefaction waves, shocks and shock conditions, the Riemann problem, and generalizations to N by N systems.

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